Journeys into the Past

Working with Dr. Wietse de Boer as an Undergraduate Summer Scholar, Miami senior Caroline Godard investigated the world of political images in the European Renaissance.  […]

Sholem Aleichem’s popular stories of Tevye the Dairyman made the author famous within and putside the Russian Empire.  Published between 1895 and 1916, the stories […]

When Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s novel What is to be Done? appeared in the 1863 issues of the popular journal The Contemporary, it caused a sensation.  Written while the author […]

Mikhail Lermontov, Tiflis.  1837.  Wikimedia Commons. By Paige Ross Understanding Russian Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov’s […]

Mikhail Lermontov, The Georgian Military Highway, 1837.  Wikimedia Commons.   Mikhail Lermontov’s short novel remains a classic account of the nature of the Russian Empire […]

Ilya Repin, They Did Not Expect Him.  1884-88.  Wikimedia Commons. Students in the Fall 2017 class, A History of the Russian Empire, wrote creative papers that […]

  Our first issue in Volume II of Journeys into the Past features a number of articles that delve into the connections between local and global […]

Mitchell Duneier, ­Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) Review by Jacob Bruggeman “Today, […]

Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. By Jacob Bruggeman The human era—the Anthropocene—continues to alter the Earth through […]

The official pamphlet of the American Exhibition in Moscow. By Matthew Kline The Cold War was a strategic and ideological battle between the superpowers of […]